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Heed CCI Policy Manual Instructions for This Scenario
Published on Tue Aug 07, 2018
Question: The physician performed a three-view X-ray of the patient’s foot and a two-view X-ray of her calcaneus. The physician indicated separate trauma to the foot and the calcaneus. I looked up the CCI edit between codes 73630 (Radiologic examination, foot; complete, minimum of 3 views) and 73650 (Radiologic examination; calcaneus, minimum of 2 views) and saw that an overriding [...]